4720 Project management Post quiz study

____ involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them.

Collecting Requirements

____ involves managing changes to project scope throughout the life of the project, which is a challenge on many information technology projects

Controlling scope

____ involves controlling and managing changes to the project schedule.

Controlling the schedule

____ involves identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables.

Defining Activities

____ involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved.

Defining Scope

____ involves analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule.

Develop the schedule

____involves estimating the number of time units that are needed to complete each activity.

Estimating Activity Durations

____ provide(s) a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.

Gantt Charts

____ uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information systems.

JAD

____ use(s) probabilistic time estimates—duration estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity durations—instead of one specific or discrete duration estimate.

PERT

____ involves identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities.

Sequencing Activities

____ is a process for identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them

Use case modeling

____ involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables during this process

Verifying scope

The ____ provide(s) schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity.

activity attributes

In the ____, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point

analogy approach

____ is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

critical path analysis

____ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project.

mandatory

Of the following constraints, it is most difficult to describe, agree upon, and meet the ____ goal of many projects

scope

The ____ approach involves refining the work into greater and greater levels of detail

top-down

A(n) ____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project

work breakdown structure